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In reply to the discussion: Unpopular opinion: PC policing is going WAY TOO far. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Public campus, public space. No group of students can just up and declare that suddenly some people are barred from it or that Constitutional rights are limited in public spaces on it just because they say so.
Students can't declare it a media free zone any more than a hate group could show up and declare it a "negro free zone" or "Muslim free zone".
The idea that these students were justified in the use of bully tactics against a member of the media just because they "created" a mythical "media free zone" is absurd. Those students had no more right or authority to restrict that reporters rights than anyone else did to restrict their First Amendment rights- and I find the fact that they had no problem declaring First Amendent rights restricted in a public space just by declaration and then using bullying tactics to enforce that bogus restraint of Constitutional rights very troubling. And I find that some here are perfectly fine with the use of mob bully tactics to enforce restrictions on the exercise of Constitutional rights just because the mob said so very troubling also.